Sorry, very late getting around to this... I think what Ray is pointing to is the comments I made based on some research I did in South West Nova about 20 years ago where I found that the "informal" (non-cash) income of many rural dwellers was roughly the equivalent of (or even greater than) the cash income (bartering of services, self-servicing, use of field foods including gardens and hunting etc.etc.)... The significance of this non-cash income was to free up the cash income for other things (and providing a lifestyle way beyond the "poverty level" incomes that folks were officially reporting) and of course, no one was paying tax on any of this non-cash income... (think about the value of shooting and eating a 2000 lb. moose for example).
MG -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 4:04 PM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] A pronto return of the Greek Colonels I don't know Mike. I only know what I was told about unreported income being a problem in the backwoods. However I do have a lot of Texas relatives who don't it hard to believe, about someone else. (smile) REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 9:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: A pronto return of the Greek Colonels REH wrote: > I loved Nova Scotia, especially my Futurework dear friends. But the > conference spoke about the problem of people who dealt only in cash > and reported no income. Seems I remember they were a large number, > had big houses in the woods, big dogs and big guns and loved to play > the fiddle. Am I remembering wrong? Well, I dunno. There's always a few sleazebags at the upper end of the scale, doing cash deals, reporting enough income to keep the auditors off and cooking the books. You have them everywhere. And country people, do a little farming or woodcutting, get seasonal jobs, odd jobs at the sawmill or fish plant, do some trucking, whatever. People like that sell some firewood to a neighbor or a couple of shoats to the guy down the road or replace an engine in an old truck for somebody in the back yard, it never gets into the books. I don't personally know any of the former (although I knew such a guy in rural Massachusetts 40 years ago). Maybe I just don't get out and around enough. Big wad of cash, big house, big dogs, lotsa guns -- sounds like Texas to me. :-) - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
